>> My wife and I have identical Dell XPS 13 laptops. I have the config >> on both as close as possible. We use identical kernel config files, >> but I can compile git-sources-3.9-rc1 without installing sys-devel/bc >> and it looks like she can not. Does anyone know why this would >> happen? >> >> BC kernel/timeconst.h >> /bin/sh: bc: command not found >> make[1]: *** [kernel/timeconst.h] Error 127 >> make: *** [kernel] Error 2 > > It seems that sys-devel/bc is now required to build the kernel ⁽¹⁾. > > On your system, are you sure that you don't have bc installed as a > dependency of another tool ?
It turns out I have /usr/bin/bc but portage didn't know about it. equery says it doesn't belong to any package. Should sys-devel/bc be in the world file or are the profiles going to add it? - Grant
